Candelinas Quotes & Sayings

The west and southwest of Ireland bore the brunt of the famine. Those areas, including Mayo, Sligo, Roscommon, Galway, Clare, and Cork, were the poorest regions of the island, and the most dependent on subsistence farming. Not coincidentally, these were also the areas that Catholic Irish had been sent to during the Protestant plantation. — Ryan Hackney

I knew at quite a young age that I had an issue with drinking. — Martin Gore

I've always thought of myself as a realist. I can remember fighting with my professors about it in grad school. The world that I live in consists of 250 advertisements a day and any number of unbelievably entertaining options, most of which are subsidized by corporations that want to sell me things. The whole way that the world acts on my nerve endings is bound up with stuff that the guys with the leather patches on their elbows would consider pop or trivial or ephemeral. I use a fair amount of pop stuff in my fiction, but what I mean by it is nothing different than what other people mean in writing about trees and parks and having to walk to the river to get water 100 years ago. It's just the texture of the world I live in. — David Foster Wallace

A proverb is a short sentence based on long experience. — Miguel De Cervantes

When I'm shooting films, I write and play music when I come home. — Violante Placido

It was the least she could do. For Nehemia - for. . . a lot of other people. There was nothing left in her, not really. Only ash and an abyss and the unbreakable vow she'd carved into her flesh, to the friend who had seen her for what she truly was. — Sarah J. Maas

We all perish in our last attempt to live. — Robin Hobb

The golden hour of invention must terminate like other hours, and when the man of genius returns to the cares, the duties, the vexations, and the amusements of life, his companions behold him as one of themselves - the creature of habits and infirmities. — Isaac D'Israeli

What happens is never unpredictable: there are always breaches, carelessness, incompetence, omissions, which have not prevented the occurrence. — Zygmunt Bauman

What do years have to do with age? — Leo Buscaglia

I decided it was well past time to take him home and place him in bosom of his family. If you had rather I put him in an orphanage, I fully understand. — Cassandra Clare

He who talks much cannot always talk well.
[It., Chi parla troppo non puo parlar sempre bene.] — Carlo Goldoni

The scares are the easier part of scary movies. The hard part of scary movies is what leads up to the scares. — Jason Blum

Human evolution has two steps -
from being somebody to being nobody;
and from being nobody to being everybody.
This knowledge can bring
sharing and caring throughout the world. — Sri Sri Ravi Shankar